Reply to "African Lion Endangered"

A year ago with the help of donors, the Kevin Richardson Wildlife Sanctuary was established, on a privately owned plot comprising 1,200 hectares of rolling grasslands. The sanctuary also includes leopards and hyenas. Richardson aims for the captive population to plummet, that means a moratorium on lion breeding. The fear is that the industry is too profitable to stop locally. The environmentalists around the world hope that the African lion will get protection under the Endangered Species Act.

Richard's mission is to run his park called 'Wellgedacht' as a game park weithout a captive lion population once his own brood dies off. "I want no lions in enclosures," he says. "If that happens, the I know we're doing something right."